The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 3, sentence 92

And the trees were so glad to have the children back again that they had covered themselves with blossoms, and were waving their arms gently above the children’s heads.

Who acts: trees · What happens: be, have back, cover, wave · To what, where: children, arms, heads

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 glad	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 glad	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 glad	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 glad	advmod
6	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 have	mark
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 glad	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 children	det
10	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
12	again	again	ADV	_	8 have	advmod
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 covered	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 covered	nsubj:pass
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 covered	aux
16	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 glad	advcl
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 covered	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 blossoms	case
19	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 covered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 waving	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 waving	cc
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 waving	aux
23	waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 glad	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 arms	nmod:poss
25	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waving	obj
26	gently	gently	ADV	_	23 waving	advmod
27	above	above	ADP	_	31 heads	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 children	det
29	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 heads	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 children	case
31	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 waving	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 glad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trees				glad property	tree rules
2	have back	to-infinitive	the trees not said here	the children		again		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
3	cover	past · perfect · passive		children = child			with blossoms	tree rules
4	wave	past · progressive	the trees not said here	children's arms	the children's heads		gently property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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